Applications of life cycle assessment to NatureWorks polylactide (PLA) production

By E. T. Vink, K. Rábago, D. Glassner, P. Gruber. 2003

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Environmental Engineering, Pollution

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In Biomaterials

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Citations in the corpus

• Life Cycle Inventory and Impact Assessment Data for 2014 Ingeo™ Polylactide Production (2015, neutral): “1,2,14 The polymer pellets are the final stage of the Ingeo ecoprofile; packaging and transportation to the customer are not included.”
• Polylactide (PLA) designed with desired end‐use properties: 1. PLA compositions with low molecular weight ester‐like plasticizers and related performances (2008, neutral): “) 1020 (100) 11 (3) ) 720 (90) 36 (5) ) 710 (50) 77 (44) ) 670 (120) 78 (33) ) 970 (70) 11 (4) ) 590 (50) 221 (8) ) 270 (20) 317 (4) ) 760 (140) 8 (2) ) 590 (110) 223 (19) ) 10 (3) 443 (13)”
• Towards Controlled Degradation of Poly(lactic) Acid in Technical Applications (2021, background): “One of the crucial advantages of PLA is that it requires up to 55% less energy to be produced than petroleum-based polymers, and estimations have shown that this could be further reduced to less than 10% in the near future [10].”